Optare Esteem

The Optare Esteem was a low-floor single-decker bus body made by East Lancashire Coachbuilders, Darwen East Lancs and Optare between 2006 and 2009, on Scania, Volvo, MAN and Alexander Dennis chassis. East Lancashire Coachbuilders launched it in 2006, and the first production examples entered service with Preston Bus in September 2006 on Scania N94UB chassis. The first two Esteems on the Enviro300 chassis went to Courtney Coaches and were the first Enviro300s with bodywork not built by Alexander Dennis. Optare took the design on with the East Lancs business in 2008, and production stopped in 2009 with 40 built on Enviro200 Dart chassis for Go-Ahead London.